On that note – The Daily Beast reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully tested brain implants that facilitate communication between a user’s brain and a drone, allowing a pilot to control not one but three drones simultaneously using only their thoughts.

The test centered around a volunteer subject named Nathan Copeland. Copeland is partially paralyzed and had a ‘bidirectional neural interface’ implanted into his brain. Equipped with the implant, Copeland navigated simulated drone laterally and vertically through obstacle courses. Copeland was also able to control three computer-simulated drones in formation (one leading craft with two support craft) simultaneously.

“Copeland was able to simultaneously steer a simulated lead aircraft and maintain formation of two, simulated unmanned support aircraft in a flight simulator,” Tim Kilbride, a DARPA spokesperson, told The Daily Beast. The implant works in the same way as a electroencephalogram (EEG) which detects a person’s brainwaves and records them in a wave pattern on a piece of paper.

Professor X is a comic book hero that uses telekinesis to move things with his mind. Mind control implants or head caps may soon grant normal people similar abilities